Deaths in December 1994

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 1994.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

December 1994

1

• Samia Gamal, 70, Egyptian belly dancer and actress.
• Reg Garvin, 82, Australian rules football player.
• William S. Hanna, 71, American politician.
• Helen McCloy, 90, American writer.
• Calvin Mooers, 75, American computer scientist.

2

• Bogumił Andrzejewski, 72, Polish writer and linguist.
• Julien Davies Cornell, 84, American lawyer who defended pacifist Ezra Pound.
• Miguel M. Delgado, 88, Mexican film director and screenwriter, cancer.
• Orhan Şaik Gökyay, 92, Turkish author.
• Alan Splet, 54, American sound designer and sound editor (Eraserhead, Dune, Blue Velvet).
• Reginald Claude Sprigg, 75, Australian geologist and conservationist.

3

• Giorgi Chanturia, 35, Georgian politician and the National Democratic Party leader, homicide.
• John E. Henderson, 77, American politician of the Republican Party.
• Earl Johnson, 75, American baseball player and scout and World War II veteran.
• Mihail Lozanov, 83, Bulgarian football player.

4

• Reaves H. Baysinger, 92, American gridiron football player and coach.
• Geoffrey Elton, 73, German-British political and constitutional historian, heart attack.
• Ichiro Ogimura, 62, Japanese table tennis player and coach, lung cancer.
• Julio Ramón Ribeyro, 65, Peruvian writer.
• Gertrud Schiller, 89, German writer.
• István Timár, 54, Hungarian canoe racer.

5

• Woody Abernathy, 79, American baseball player.
• Asım Orhan Barut, 68, Turkish-American theoretical physicist.
• Harry Horner, 84, American art director (The Hustler, The Heiress, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?), Oscar winner (1950, 1962), pneumonia.
• Günter Meisner, 68, German actor (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, The Boys from Brazil, The Winds of War).
• Saïd Mohammedi, 81, Algerian politician.
• Rudy Pilous, 80, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• Dick Rifenburg, 68, American gridiron football player and sports broadcaster.
• E.W. Swackhamer, 67, American television and film director.

6

• Heinz Baas, 72, German football player and manager.
• Máire de Paor, 69, Irish historian and archaeologist.
• Otar Gordeli, 66, Georgian musician.
• Richard Markowitz, 68, American film and television composer (Murder, She Wrote, The Wild Wild West, Police Story).
• Alun Owen, 69, British screenwriter.
• Gian Maria Volonté, 61, Italian actor, heart attack.

7

• Elga Andersen, 59, German actress and singer, cancer.
• Pierre Cloarec, 85, French road bicycle racer.
• Franz Lucas, 83, German SS officer and Auschwitz concentration camp doctor during World War II.
• Edward Rell Madigan, 58, American politician, lung cancer.
• J. C. Tremblay, 55, Canadian ice hockey player, kidney cancer.

8

• Antônio Carlos Jobim, 67, Brazilian musician, heart failure.
• Semni Karusou, 96, Greek archaeologist and art historian.
• Enrique Líster, 87, Spanish communist politician and military officer.
• Crawford Nalder, 84, Australian politician.

9

• Antal Apró, 81, Hungarian politician.
• John Joe Barry, 69, Irish middle-distance runner and Olympian.
• Max Bill, 85, Swiss architect, painter and sculptor, heart attack.
• O. C. Fisher, 91, American politician.
• Pat Haggerty, 67, American football official in the National Football League, cancer.
• Garnett Silk, 28, Jamaican reggae musician and Rastafarian, domestic accident.
• Alex Wilson, 87, Canadian sprinter.

10

• Henry Bernard, 82, French architect and urban planner.
• Friedel Dzubas, 79, German-American abstract painter.
• Keith Joseph, 76, British barrister and politician.
• Jiří Marek, 80, Czech publicist, scriptwriter, and writer.

11

• Magnus Andersen, 78, Norwegian politician.
• Dionísio Azevedo, 72, Brazilian actor and director, lung cancer.
• Edward A. Craig, 98, United States Marine Corps officer.
• Vera Kuznetsova, 87, Soviet/Russian actress.
• Stanisław Maczek, 102, Polish military officer of World War I and World War II.
• Carl Marzani, 82, American spy.
• George Phillips, 73, American gridiron football player.
• Philip Phillips, 94, American archaeologist.
• Yuli Raizman, 90, Soviet/Russian film director, screenwriter.
• Kenneth Rush, 84, American diplomat and ambassador.
• Avet Terterian, 65, Soviet/Armenian composer.
• Yao Yilin, 77, Chinese politician and Vice Premier.

12

• John Hearne, 68, Jamaican writer.
• Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, 75, Palestinian translator.
• Nicolaas Kuiper, 74, Dutch mathematician.
• Annelise Reenberg, 75, Danish film director.
• Stuart Roosa, 61, American astronaut, pancreatic cancer.
• Sir Evelyn Shuckburgh, 85, British diplomat.
• Donna J. Stone, 61, American poet and philanthropist.
• Frederick Turnovsky, 77, New Zealand businessman and arts advocate.

13

• Glenn M. Anderson, 81, American politician.
• Norman Beaton, 60, British actor, heart attack.
• Philip S. Foner, 83, American historian.
• Philip Hauser, 85, American academic.
• Antoine Pinay, 102, French politician and Prime Minister of France.
• Charlie Richard, 53, American football coach.
• Olga Rubtsova, 85, Soviet/Russian chess player.

14

• Orval Faubus, 84, American politician and governor of Arkansas, prostate cancer.
• Edmund Hudleston, 85, British Royal Air Force air marshal.
• Mary Ann McCall, 75, American pop and jazz singer.
• Robert Mersey, 77, American musician, arranger and record producer.
• Catherine Filene Shouse, 98, American researcher and philanthropist.
• Franco Venturi, 80, Italian historian, essayist and journalist.

15

• Oscar Bidegain, 89, Argentine politician.
• Boris Chichibabin, 71, Soviet/Russian writer.
• Arthur de la Mare, 80, British diplomat and High Commissioner of Singapore.
• Piero Gardoni, 60, Italian professional footballer.
• Mollie Phillips, 87, British skater.
• Hazel Brannon Smith, 80, American journalist, publisher and Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Harry Tobias, 99, American lyricist.

16

• Patrick Cobbold, 60, British football executive.
• David Dunlap, 84, American rower.
• Mary Durack, 81, Australian novelist and historian.
• Les Gandar, 75, New Zealand politician.

17

• Pierre Baruzy, 97, French boxing champion and manager.
• Deon Dreyer, 20, South African recreational scuba diver, drowned.
• Hambardzum Galstyan, 39, Armenian politician and historian, homicide.
• Ella Hval, 90, Norwegian actress.
• Stefano Sertorelli, 82, Italian soldier, skier and Olympian.
• Olavi Talja, 69, Finnish sprinter, middle-distance runner and Olympian.
• Ajahn Thate, 92, Thai meditation master and buddhist monk.

18

• Roger Apéry, 78, Greek-French mathematician, Parkinson's disease.
• Henry Banks, 81, American racecar driver.
• Phil Bengtson, 81, American gridiron football player and coach.
• Heinz Bernard, 70, British actor, director and theatre manager.
• Don Fedderson, 81, American television executive.
• David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead, 81, British politician.
• Peter Hebblethwaite, 64, British priest, journalist, and biographer.
• F. Bradford Morse, 73, American politician.
• Lilia Skala, 98, Austrian-American actress (Lilies of the Field, Flashdance, Charly).
• Suryakantam, 70, Indian actress.

19

• Vera Chaplina, 86, Soviet/Russian children's writer and naturalist.
• Bill Douglass, 71, American jazz drummer.
• Vadim Kozin, 91, Russian tenor and songwriter.
• Noel Pointer, 39, American musician, stroke.
• K. A. P. Viswanatham, 95, Indian politician.

20

• Eva Alexanderson, 83, Swedish translator and writer.
• Daniel I. Arnon, 84, Polish-American plant physiologist, heart failure.
• Stephen Coughlan, 83, Irish politician.
• Alexander Felszeghy, 61, Czechoslovak association football player and coach.
• Valeriy Kryvov, 43, Soviet/Ukrainian volleyball player.
• Cyril Ponnamperuma, 71, Sri Lankan scientist.
• Phelim O'Neill, 2nd Baron Rathcavan, 85, British politician.
• Dean Rusk, 85, American politician and Secretary of State, heart failure.
• Bob Wellman, 69, American baseball player, manager and scout.

21

• Göte Almqvist, 73, Swedish ice hockey player.
• Butch Hartman, 54, American stock car racing driver, heart attack.
• Mabel Poulton, 93, English actress.
• Audrey Sale-Barker, 91, British aviator and alpine skier.
• Koreya Senda, 90, Japanese stage director and translator, and actor.

22

• Gérard Loiselle, 73, Canadian politician.
• Nobuko Otowa, 70, Japanese actress, liver cancer.
• Atte Pakkanen, 82, Finnish politician.
• J. A. Todd, 86, English mathematician.

23

• Tony Doyle, 41, Australian politician, AIDS-related complications.
• Mark Foo, 36, Singapore-American surfer, surfing accident.
• Johnny Mince, 82, American swing jazz clarinetist.
• Sebastian Shaw, 89, English actor (Return of the Jedi) and author.
• Charles Wesley Shilling, 93, American physician and navy officer.
• Teiji Ōmiya, 66, Japanese voice actor, colorectal cancer.

24

• John Boswell, 47, American historian and professor, AIDS-related complications.
• Rossano Brazzi, 78, Italian actor.
• Maurice Chéhab, 89, Lebanese archaeologist and museum curator.
• John T. Dugan, 74, American screenwriter.
• Julie Haydon, 84, American actress, cancer.
• Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel, 94, Austrian actress.
• John Osborne, 65, English playwright (Look Back in Anger and actor (Get Carter), diabetes.
• Aleksandr Uvarov, 72, Russian ice hockey player.
• Eduardo Orrego Villacorta, 61, Peruvian politician and architect, cancer.

25

• Buddy Ace, 58, American singer, heart attack.
• Ghulam Ahmed Chishti, 89, Pakistani film score composer, heart attack.
• Pierre Dreyfus, 87, French businessman and civil servant.
• Cyril Garnham, 93, British parasitologist.
• Masjkur, 89, Indonesian politician.
• Zail Singh, 78, Indian politician and former President of India, traffic collision.
• Czesław Spychała, 77, Polish tennis player.

26

• Robert Emhardt, 80, American actor (3:10 to Yuma).
• Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan, 82, British businessman and peer.
• Sylva Koscina, 61, Yugoslav/Croatian actress (Hercules, Judex, The Secret War of Harry Frigg), breast cancer.
• Kothuku Nanappan, 59, Malayalam film actor.
• Dennis Osadebay, 83, Nigerian politician, poet, and journalist.
• Pietro Pavan, 91, Italian Catholic cardinal.
• Allie Reynolds, 77, American baseball player.
• Germaine Rouer, 97, French actress.
• Karl Schiller, 83, German scientist and politician.
• Parveen Shakir, 42, Pakistani writer and poet, traffic collision.
• Seetharaman Sundaram, 93, Indian lawyer and yoga as exercise pioneer .

27

• Winsome Fanny Barker, 87, South African botanist and plant collector.
• Fanny Cradock, 85, English restaurant critic, television chef and writer.
• Marjorie Joyner, 98, American businesswoman, philanthropist, and activist.
• Peter May, 64, English cricket player and administrator, brain cancer.
• Steve Plytas, 81, British actor.
• Haki Toska, 74, Albanian politician.

28

• Julius Adler, 88, Jewish-American actor and writer.
• Ursula Appolloni, 65, Canadian politician, lung cancer.
• Georgy Baydukov, 87, Soviet/Russian aircraft test pilot and writer.
• Victor FitzGeorge-Balfour, 81, British Army officer.
• Joseph Holland, 84, American stage actor.
• Gopalaswamy Mahendraraja, 38, Sri Lankan member of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, executed.
• Arnljot Norwich, 71, Norwegian politician.

29

• Woodrow A. Abbott, 75, American officer.
• Robert Barbour, 95, Australian cricket player.
• Bernard Cousino, 92, American inventor.
• Manuel Mora, 85, Costa Rican politician.
• Frank Thring, 68, Australian actor (Ben-Hur, King of Kings, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) and theatre director, cancer.

30

• Geoff Bradford, 67, English football player.
• Dmitri Ivanenko, 90, Soviet/Russian physicist.
• Andrei Kuznetsov, 28, Soviet/Russian volleyball player, traffic collision.
• Hap Moran, 93, American gridiron football player.
• Anton Rom, 85, German rower.
• Maureen Starkey Tigrett, 48, British hairdresser and wife of beatle Ringo starr, leukemia.
• Xu Yixin, 83, Chinese politician.

31

• Leigh Bowery, 33, Australian performance artist, club promoter, and fashion designer, AIDS-related complications.
• Jacques Dimont, 49, French fencer and Olympic champion.
• Leo Fuchs, 83, Polish-American actor and coupletist.
• Elma Karlowa, 62, Yugoslav/Croatian actress, diabetes.
• Bruno Pezzey, 39, Austrian football player, cardioplegia.
• Woody Strode, 80, American athlete and actor (Spartacus, The Ten Commandments, Once Upon a Time in the West), lung cancer.
• Harri Webb, 74, Welsh poet, journalist and librarian, stroke.

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